Men Like Gods

The 20th century gave birth to a new genre of fiction: the super-powered adventure. Men and women with strange powers gave a visible expression to the reader's sense of wonder, as they protected ordinary mortals from a variety of threats from street crime to world-shattering disasters. When roleplaying games were invented, supers quickly became one of the most popular genres – and one of the most challenging to do right.

GURPS Fourth Edition provides the game mechanics and tools for the job, and GURPS Supers is your guide to applying them: a comprehensive playbook to the supers genre and to capturing it in your campaign. Focused on drama and characterization, it provides:

A history and analysis of the supers genre, its precursors and variations.

A guide to character creation, including powers and other abilities, codes of conduct, dual identities, and personal relationships.

More than 20 new wildcard skills.

22 templates for super characters, each customizable to higher or lower power levels.

Continuity-creation guidelines and tools, so your supers universe can have the same depth as published worlds.

New game mechanics for character creation, including new interpretations of advantages, disadvantages, and skills, and newly defined perks, quirks, enhancements, limitations, and techniques.

Guidelines for running superhuman feats and combats under existing rules or adjusting those rules to fit the genre, and new game mechanics specifically for superhuman action.

GURPS Supers is a new work, but it draws inspiration from the previous editions of GURPS Supers. Using it to run a GURPS campaign requires the GURPS Basic Set and GURPS Powers. The material on genre conventions, character concepts and relationships, scenario creation, and supers universes can be used with any game system.

It's a blockbuster!

Three new dice give you three new ways to play. For the Big Summer Action Movie, you've got the two Heroes: the Hunk and the Hottie. He's got a double-shotgun icon, but if you eat his brain, you score double. The Hottie has two shotguns and three feet icons, making her fast AND dangerous.

For Santa Claus Meets the Zombies, you guessed it: Santa Claus is coming to town! He has three special gift icons -- a helmet, an energy drink, and a double brain! Or, of course, you could eat Santa's brain. It's a very merry undead Christmas!

Finally, in The Direct-to-Video Sequel: Use all three new dice and watch Santa rescue the Heroes!

Three new ways to eat brains, and they're all in Zombie Dice 2 -- Double Feature.

112 more cards for the game of killing monsters and taking their stuff. Play a new race: Orcs! Face foes like the Hydrant and the Tentacle Demon. Equip yourself with dread armor like the Spiked Codpiece. Recruit allies like the Shoulder Dragon. Wield mighty weapons like Druid Fluid, the Slug Thrower and, of course, the terrifying Unnatural Axe . . . and show them who's the greatest munchkin of all.

Munchkin 2 -- Unnatural Axe is a supplement to Munchkin; you will need the original game to play. Or you could add it to any of the other Munchkin game sets instead. It'll work, and it'll be silly, and that's what we all want here.

Another 112 cards for the best-selling game of killing monsters and taking their stuff. Play a new Race: Gnomes! Try on the Bard Class. Face the Tequila Mockingbird, the Bad Ass, and the dreaded Auntie Paladin! Equip yourself with amazing items like the Chainmail Bikini and the Stab-A-Matic . . . and show them who's the mightiest, munchkinest dungeon delver of them all.

And this set has a special treat. We asked five of our favorite Comic Guys to do one card each. Inside you'll find:

Go down in the dungeon. Kill everything you meet. Backstab your friends and steal their stuff. Grab the treasure and run.

Admit it. You love it.

And you'll love this version of the game. It's got all the same dungeon-crawling, pun-making, backstabbing madness of original Munchkin. But with 115 cards, it's the perfect size for three to four players. Take it anywhere, and play it in an hour!

Are you looking for a fight?

When it comes to combat, the right tool, trick, trapping, or teammate can make all the difference, as shown in this installment of Pyramid, the PDF magazine for roleplayers. Unleash the mythic power of firearms with Christopher R. Rice and S.A. Fisher. Go hand to hand against monsters in the Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game by becoming a wrestler, or find your fortune in a dogfight-heavy GURPS Spaceships setting. With this issue, you'll find your fight!

Further Tails of Adventure!

Many heroes of the Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game will launch their careers with I Smell a Rat, the adventure included in the game. Dungeon Fantasy: Against the Rat-Men picks up where that story leaves off, with new dangers and new rewards. The rat-men are ready to strike against the surface world . . . but are you ready for them?

Booster packs for the Munchkin Collectible Card Game include hundreds of cards that you can’t find in any of the three starter sets! Available only at your friendly local game store or on Warehouse 23.

Booster packs for the Munchkin Collectible Card Game include hundreds of cards that you can’t find in any of the three starter sets! Available only at your friendly local game store or on Warehouse 23.

Play the Munchkin Collectible Card Game, where only the best cheaters will win.

This starter is a one-on-one struggle between the Centaur Warrior, who bristles with weapons – the better to kill every Monster she faces! – and the Halfling Ranger – a master of regeneration, bringing Monsters back from the dead to fight again.

Includes two 40-card decks, tokens, level dials, a six-sided die, quick-start rules, and two Hero cards. That's everything two new players need to duke it out immediately!

Pick up some boosters to customize your deck – and cheat even better next time.

Play the Munchkin Collectible Card Game, where only the best cheaters will win.

This starter is a mano-a-mano bout between the Dwarf Cleric, who laughs in the face of pain as he heals himself, turn after turn, and the Elf Thief, who cheats and steals as often as possible . . . and sometimes getting caught cheating is part of her plan!

Includes two 40-card decks, tokens, level dials, a six-sided die, quick-start rules, and two Hero cards. That's everything two new players need to throw down, right out of the box!

Pick up some boosters to customize your deck – and cheat even better next time.

Speak louder than words.

When the lights go down and the trailer starts, that's when heroes come into focus. This month's issue of Pyramid, the PDF magazine for roleplayers, ramps up the excitement of the GURPS Action series. Add on new modular heroic options to become a knife-fighter, rock star, occultist, and other mix-and-match possibilities. Expand on chase rules to include the challenges of terrain and oddball situations, then prove your heroism in a full adventure. This issue is locked and loaded for fun!

Watch Your Step!

In the Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game, not all threats can be overcome with swords or spells. Catch heroes unaware with ready-made traps for home-made adventures: nasty gadgets, complicated architecture, hidden poison, malicious magic, and devious tricks. Endure the rain of liquid ice, disarm the dragon's maw hallway, untangle the riddle of stone . . . or face any of dozens of other dangers.

It's the year 2100. Humans have colonized the solar system. China and America struggle for control of Mars. The Royal Navy patrols the asteroid belt. Nanotechnology has transformed life on Earth forever, and gene-enhanced humans share the world with artificial intelligences and robotic cybershells. Our solar system has become a setting as exciting and alien as any interstellar empire. Pirate spaceships hijacking black holes . . . sentient computers and artificial "bioroids" demanding human rights . . . nanotechnology and mind control . . . Transhuman Space is cutting-edge science-fiction adventure that begins where cyberpunk ends.

This Powered by GURPS line was created by David L. Pulver and illustrated by Christopher Shy. The core book, Transhuman Space, opens with nearly one hundred pages of world and background material. This edition includes a customized GURPS Lite – no other books are required to use it, although the GURPS Basic Set for Third Edition and GURPS Compendium I are recommended for GMs.

The Third Wave was information. The Fourth Wave was biotech. The Fifth Wave is a combination of nanotechnology, memetics, and artificial intelligence, and it's changing mankind more than the first four waves put together.

Transhuman Space: Fifth Wave is an overview of our home planet at the end of the 21st century. Most humans (and other sapient life) still live on Earth, doing business, raising families, and fighting wars just as they have always done. Humanity and its partners may be scattering into deep space, but Earth is still the center of the human universe . . . crowded, busy, fast-moving, and still picking up speed.

Fifth Wave includes new racial packages, plus rules for cutting-edge technology: virtuality nodes, software for network intrusion and defense, and various land, sea and air vehicles of interest to adventurers.

Adventure in any world you can think of, with GURPS, the Generic Universal RolePlaying System – the most flexible roleplaying system you can use. If you haven't yet upgraded to the Fourth Edition . . . you're a completist . . . or you're looking for a dose of nostalgia, here's the previous edition! It's easy to learn – you can jump right in with the included quick-start rules, pre-designed characters, and an easy-to-play solo adventure. The Basic Set is designed to be "Game Master-friendly," with Table of Contents, Glossary, Appendix, and Index, as well as lots of examples.

Build Character!

GURPS Compendium I has it all! We've searched over a hundred GURPSThird Edition books and dozens of Roleplayer and Pyramid articles to bring you the most complete compilation of character generation rules ever. Compendium I includes updated and revised versions of every character-related rule for GURPS Third Edition that has been published since the release of Third Edition's Basic Set – all in an easy-to-use format.

With Compendium I and Basic Set in hand, you will be able to handle all character design without ever opening another book, except to select world-specific abilities like spells and cyberwear. Compendium I is a companion volume to the Basic Set and is a must-have for any serious GURPS Third Edition player or GM!

Dragons! The most fabulous of all fabulous beasts. Throughout history, around the world, tales of fire-breathing monsters have stirred awe and terror. Now . . . play a dragon. Take to the air with prodigious wingbeats, soaring effortlessly for hundreds of miles. Terrify your foes with fire, claws, and teeth. Gather your hoard. Study ancient lore and magic . . . and take human form to walk in the world of men!

Traps, terrors, and treasures are waiting for heroes.

Tombs teem with trouble and tricks, but terrific trinkets await the intrepid! This issue of Pyramid, the PDF magazine for roleplayers, gives gaming goodness for both the Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game and the GURPS Dungeon Fantasy line. Make heroes in new ways courtesy of Dungeon Fantasy architect Sean Punch. Face monsters that are treasures themselves, and discover the genesis of Dungeon Fantasy Traps. With this issue, there are dozens of ways to die . . . but it's all worth it!

Arcane Assistance at Your Fingertips

For heroes of the Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game, a well-timed modicum of magic can mean the difference between victory and death. Dungeon Fantasy Magic Items offers you an emporium of enchantment, stocked with wondrous weapons, armor, wands, jewelry, potions, and more. It's an assortment of awesome aids for GMs and looters alike.

Do you like pawns? Good. So do we.
Pick up this extremely limited set (less than 200 made) of these rare unique colored spawns. Each set comes with 18 pawns, in 3 different styles (Spyke, Flower, and Zombie) in 6 different colors (Black, Green, Pink, Orange, Clear, and Glow-in-the-Dark). Included with each bag of pawns is the unique Pawn Spawning bookmark.

Ruthless Artificial Intelligences have exterminated most of humanity, while the survivors are hunted like animals, or face slow death in the robots' brutal labor camps. But a lucky few have escaped death or enslavement. While most of mankind has succumbed to despair, some refuse to give up hope. Around the world, small groups of dedicated survivors are forming, preparing to oppose the robot overlords and fight to free mankind.

A worldbook for GURPS, Reign of Steel details mankind's struggle against his metal masters in a dark future. GURPS Reign of Steel utilizes the sleek rules from GURPS Robots, although you do not need Robots to play. Take on the role of the oppressed masses, and teach the robot overlords that technology can be made obsolete.

An alternate world in which magic and technology both work . . .all too well.

On July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb was detonated at Trinity Site in New Mexico. The explosion ripped a hole in the fabric of space. Doctor Oppenheimer's words, "I am become death, destroyer of worlds" unwittingly closed a necromantic ritual. The fireball vanished, but the mushroom cloud remained. This was the Hellstorm, a tornado of seething magical energy.

A pattern of enchanted fallout drifted across the southern United States and Mexico. The effects would not be felt immediately, but over the next generation, they would transform the world . . .

Magic had come to the modern 20th century. But like the power of the atom on our own Earth, it would prove a Pandora's Box.

Note: GURPS Technomancer is not connected in any way with the White Wolf MAGE: The Ascension roleplaying game and does not in any way challenge the copyrights and terms used therein.

GURPS Voodoo: The Shadow War takes the myths of the mystical religions known as Voudoun and Santeria and gives them a twist, placing the believers and practitioners of Voodoo in the middle of a cosmic struggle. Voodoo priests and the shamans of many ancients cultures have unique views in how they can shape the world; this supplement includes a magic system to replicate those beliefs.

The Shadow War is a conflict fought on many fronts. Voodoo Initiates contend with the Lodges, which consist of European magicians who have kept their occult power hidden and consider themselves the secret masters of the Western world. Beneath that struggle, some Initiates have begun to realize, lies a battle between Humankind and beings that have no use for power or wealth – only destruction.

Unlike many "dark" RPGs, Voodoo is not about enduring horror, but fighting it. Human Spirit Warriors, monstrous In-Betweener renegades, and even ghosts can join forces and stop the manipulators and deceivers. The world of the Shadow War needs heroes, however frail or flawed they may be. Your characters may just be those heroes.

Go down in the dungeon. Kill everything you meet. Backstab your friends and steal their stuff. Grab the treasure and run.

Admit it. You love it.

Munchkin is the mega-hit card game about dungeon adventure . . . with none of that stupid roleplaying stuff. You and your friends compete to kill monsters and grab magic items. And what magic items! Don the Horny Helmet and the Boots of Butt-Kicking. Wield the Staff of Napalm . . . or maybe the Chainsaw of Bloody Dismemberment. Start by slaughtering the Potted Plant and the Drooling Slime, and work your way up to the Plutonium Dragon . . .

And it's illustrated by John Kovalic!

Fast-playing and silly, Munchkin can reduce any roleplaying group to hysteria. And while they're laughing, you can steal their stuff.

112 more cards for the game of killing monsters and taking their stuff. Play a new race: Orcs! Face foes like the Hydrant and the Tentacle Demon. Equip yourself with dread armor like the Spiked Codpiece. Recruit allies like the Shoulder Dragon. Wield mighty weapons like Druid Fluid, the Slug Thrower and, of course, the terrifying Unnatural Axe . . . and show them who's the greatest munchkin of all.

Munchkin 2 -- Unnatural Axe is a supplement to Munchkin; you will need the original game to play. Or you could add it to any of the other Munchkin game sets instead. It'll work, and it'll be silly, and that's what we all want here.

Another 112 cards for the best-selling game of killing monsters and taking their stuff. Play a new Race: Gnomes! Try on the Bard Class. Face the Tequila Mockingbird, the Bad Ass, and the dreaded Auntie Paladin! Equip yourself with amazing items like the Chainmail Bikini and the Stab-A-Matic . . . and show them who's the mightiest, munchkinest dungeon delver of them all.

And this set has a special treat. We asked five of our favorite Comic Guys to do one card each. Inside you'll find:

Munchkin 4 – The Need for Steed is an expansion for the original Munchkin – 112 more cards for killing monsters, stealing treasure, and backstabbing your fellow players. This set introduces Steeds, the trusty mounts of legend. But this is Munchkin, so these Steeds include not just the Dragon and the Tiger, but the Giant Mutant Gerbil (drawn by guest artist Shaenon K. Garrity of Skin Horse), the Chicken, and Big Joe, who might be a Steed or might be a Hireling. It's hard to tell.

Hireling? Yes indeed, The Need for Steed has lots and lots of Hirelings! Add these valuable characters to your retinue, use their special abilities, and sacrifice them to save your own skin!

Munchkins have hacked their way through dungeons, kung fu temples, starships, haunted houses, and super-foes. Now they face their greatest challenge -- Cthulhu! Will they survive? Will they retain their sanity? Will they . . . level up?

Munchkin Cthulhu is a stand-alone game that lampoons Lovecraft's Mythos and the horror gaming that surrounds it. Brought to you by Steve Jackson and John Kovalic, this set features four Classes -- including the Cultist -- and a lot of classic monsters from outside reality. And they all have Stuff you can take from their twitching bodies.

You can play Munchkin Cthulhu by itself, or combine it with any number of other Munchkin games for mind-bending silliness.

Now It's Really A Dungeon Crawl!

Demented Dungeons brings a new twist to Munchkin. Now you can enter the Dungeon of Elvish Excess, where everyone is an Elf. Or take a Portal to the Dungeon of Manga Wrangling, where tentacles are even more dangerous. Or power up in the Dungeon of Unexpected Epicness -- although it's hardly "unexpected," given the name. Or all of them at once!

Each of the 20 double-sized Dungeon cards adds a new rule that affects the entire party, and maybe the monsters, too! Use the 16 Portal cards to jump from one Dungeon to the next in your search for gold and glory.

Munchkin 6 -- Demented Dungeons is an expansion for the classic Munchkin set, and was designed by Steve Jackson and illustrated by John Kovalic.

Stir Things Up!

Admit it. You really like to combine all your Munchkin sets . . . the stupider things get, the better. Playing StarMunchkinCthulhuBootyZombies is really weird and really fun . . . but it can also slow things down.

There are a lot of ways we COULD have addressed this problem. But this is Munchkin, so the solution we chose was to create a lot of really overpowered new cards. Why be a Super Munchkin when you can be an Ultra Munchkin? If a Half-Breed isn't enough, you can be a 1/3-Breed. And if a single Cheat! card doesn't do it for you, you can Cheat With Both Hands!

There are also a lot more monster enhancers . . . and ITEM enhancers, too. There are several new low-level monsters to help you get those easy kills. Until somebody takes that Sock Puppet and turns it into the Ultra-Rare Extremely Sneaky Sock Puppet With Extra Cheese . . .

Munchkin till you drop -- just add players!

This is a supplement, not a stand-alone game. It is meant to be combined with two or more Munchkin games, with or without other supplements.

Also, We Think 7 Is a Neat Number

This set replaces both Munchkin Blender and More Good Cards, which was the original Munchkin 7. We didn't want to reprint More Good Cards, because it was only 56 cards and most of those were originally from Munchkin Blender, anyway*. We didn't want to re-use the name Blender, since this new set -- by popular demand -- has the classic Munchkin brown card backs rather than Screaming Purple Cards. And we didn't want to eat our vegetables, because vegetables are yucky.

We hope you are confused now, because we are, too . . . but we thought it would be SLIGHTLY less confusing to release a new Munchkin 7 than to call this expansion Munchkin 8 and have frustrated people writing us for the rest of our lives asking, "Why can't my store get Munchkin 7 in stock?"

* And what about the cards NOT from Munchkin Blender? They're in Munchkin Monster Enhancers, a booster pack available wherever you bought this set.

In Munchkin Legends, you'll face mythical monsters and collect legendary treasures. Challenge the Boogie Man to a dance-off . . . and cheat by wearing Achilles' Heels. Hide from the spells of the Wicked Witch of the Midwest in your Bermuda Shorts of Invulnerability. And if you think you're up to it . . . release the Kraken!

Munchkin Legends is a stand-alone set . . . or combine it with the original Munchkin for a legendarily wacky game!

In Munchkin Apocalypse, every possible natural (and unnatural) disaster has happened . . . or will happen during the game. You are a rugged survivor in a world full of people -- and things -- that want to kill you and take your stuff. So do it to them first!

This set introduces four new classes and a new, yet eerily familiar, card type: Disasters!

And what's with all these seals running around? Don't they know the world's about to end? You should really keep an eye on that seventh one in particular . . .

The mind is the key to magic . . . and vice versa.

The power of misdirection begins in the mind. This month's issue of Pyramid, the PDF magazine for roleplayers, looks at the strangeness of shadows, the intrigues of imagination, and the melding of magic and mental matters. Unleash new spells based on glass and names. Stop the machinations of artifacts of evil, or do more of the impossible in dungeons. With this issue, the limits of your imagination are where the magic happens!

A collection of new Ogre articles and art, Ogrezine has 16 fan-submitted articles, exploring the game of Ogre in its many forms. There are scenarios, fiction, historical essays, variants, and new artwork to enjoy. Want to know what happens after an Ogre has decimated your force? Find out in Karl K. Gallagher's "Clean Up." Curious as to the role a wired city might play in your game? Daniel Oney examines this in "Going Downtown: Smart Cities in the Last War." These and 14 other articles await your reading pleasure in Ogrezine!

Land Of The Underground Sun

Dungeon Fantasy heroes see town as a place to hear rumors, buy supplies, and sell loot – but their players often want details. A settlement that serves wanderers obsessed with weapons, armor, magic, and mountains of coins won't look much like anything from Earth's Middle Ages! It'll be more interesting.

GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Setting: Caverntown presents a magical underground city a mere bowshot from the dungeon. Visit and find:

A lovingly described adventure backdrop, with a remarkable history and quirky residents (including powerful non-delvers with full character sheets).

Stats for guards and security measures – and notes on laws and customs – to make would-be troublemakers think twice.

Guidelines for "civilized" heroes who want to serve on the Town Watch or even own property.